Body-tipping wagon



oct. 2, 192s. 1,686,409

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Filed June 16, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I N VEN TOR.

. ATTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 2, was.

f Y UNI'rE sfr-e155 KARL' GEUER, OF BAD OEYNHAUVSEN, GERMANY.

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. Appucationpmed mneiejiezv, serial No. 199,368), .arnglfin'eemay` June'z'i, 192e.

, This invention relates to dump Cars in which ythe body is pivotally mounted to tilt and the sides are hinged 4to open to release theload. v f i The object of the invention is to provide vconvenient means for tilting the body through a system oflevers Aand arms, and loclringmeans `for holding the levers'v and arms in'locked position to hold the body .in normal position. l Y 4' InltheA drawings 1+v Fig. 1 is an end elevation of the dump car with the parts in normal position.

lFig.v 2 is a side elevation of one end of the dump car.V

Fig. 3A is an end view showing the car body in tilted position to release its load. Fig. 4 is an end elevationvof a differentform of the invention, the body being shown in tilted position.

Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the supporting plate illustrated in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail view of one of the supporting levers illustrated `in Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a detail cent-ral section on the line 77 of Fig. 4, but showing the car body in normal position.

Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the supporting arms shown in Fig. l.

Fig. 9 is a detail section showing the locking means illustrated in Fig. 4.

The car body l has depending bearings 16 pivotally supported on a rod 2 mounted in bearings 13 on a truck l5; Pivoted on the rod 2 are end supporting'arms 5 and 6, said arms having at their ends longitudinally extending sills 3 and 4 on which the car body lis supported when the parts are in normal position. The end supporting arms extend across each other as shown in Fig. l, and at their outer ends they are pivotally connected to levers ll and l2, the upper ends of said levers being pivoted to end bars la, la, extending from the car body.

Secured to the sides of the truck trame are slotted lugs 9X and l0X in which are piveshown in ig; theisills 3 yand 44 connecting the ends of the corresponding arms 5 and 6 and 10X', and the cam heads 9a and 10a engage over thepins and effectually'loclr ltheI levers in position. o

' If it be desired to tilt the car body, one

Vof the loclringlevers is k"turned on its pivot toy remove Athehe'ad Afrom' engagement with its cooperating pm on the adjacent arm, and

at the opposite side "of thetruck remains in vcauses the hinged side of the car to move away from the car body and permit the load to tall. f l f When returning the car body to its normal position, pivot pin 7 contacts with the cam head of its lever 9 and rocks the latter un? til the pin passes the head. Then the headl automatically engages over the pin and efengage the underside of the body l', to form.4 'a body support; The pivot pins 7 and 8 lare supported in seats formed inthe lugs 9X Athe body will vtilt toone side, as shown in y Fig. v3. The companion'pinS' on the arm nits kseat'in its cooperating lug, and hence The plate 32 is formed with a central slot i v34X which receives a. stud 26 extending from a bearing 50 mounted on the truck frame 25. On the sfdes ot'k the truck trame are slotted lugs 2, 2', in which are pivoted cam head locking levers 23 and 29. The cam heads of these levers engage over the pivots 26a-27, which pivotally connect the arms 23 and 24 with the levers 35 and 36 to lock the parts in normal position.- These locking levers operate in exactly the same way as the locking levers described in connection with the pre-V viously described form of the invention.

In the operation ot' the modified ormot' the invention, the body tiltsvon thepivot stud 26, the latter having limited movement in its slot 34". lCorrespondingly, due to the pivotal arrangementof the parts, the slot 34 of pintle 31 permits the -arm 23 lto have aA limited movement, while slot 33 which re-,

oeives pintle 30 permits limited movement and prevents binding of the parts. i

Vhen the body is tilted, as shown in Fig. 4, through the connections between thearms and levers, the side 37 of the car in effect opens and the load in the car body can be dumped.

It is claimed:

l. In a dump car, a car body having movable sides, yeach movable side having end bars pivoted to :the ends lof the vcar body, a `truck,

a pivotal mounting between the ear body and l.,.. v.,*'\. i,

the truck, armspivotedto the truck, one end oi'each arm'arranged'to'engage the bottom .portion of 'the body when 'the latter is in normal position, the other end of each of said arms having'apivot, levers'having their lower ,ends mounted onthe pivots and their 'iiljper'ends 'pivotedto "the b'ars on'the movable sides, and looking devices pivot'ed on `the truck to 'engage lthexpivots between 'the -arms and levers to lockthe body in normal position.

faliy'mounted'inovable sides, a truck, pivotal 'ifoiin'ctioii betweenfthe 'car body and jthe` lt'r,u ':l-:, y afp'airfoi 'pivotally 'mounted vcross arms between't-lie'oarbody and thetru'ck, the

lconnections with'thefmovable sides, and automatic locking devices to hold the car body 'in normal position on the truck.

3, In adump car, a car body having mov- 'able sides, a vltruk, a ypivotal*mounting between the truck and the car body including 'a slot to fpermit relative movement of "the pivot, apai'r of crossarms piv'utfally mounted on 'the pivotal 'conneotion between 'the' car Y and truck, the upper ends of the crossarms 'supportin'gthe "car body Awhen the latter 'isl in normal position, studs extending from 'they cross 'arms ands engaging -arcuate Vslots lformed in thefcartbody structure,"lev`ers prvoted tothe lower ends of the rIp'ivoted 'cross arms and pivoted at theiruppeiendsto the movable sides, and automatic 'locking means for Ylocking'the Connections to hold .theIcar body in 'normal position on vthe truek GRU-ER,- 

